INTC funding: questions and answers
What is the INTC funding rate on Lighter now?
-0.0133% per hour, or -116.5% APR: shorts pay longs; funding on Lighter is paid every hour.
How does INTC funding on Lighter compare with Binance and Bybit?
Binance: 0.0% APR (paid every 8 h), Bybit: -54.1% APR. The difference between Lighter and Binance is -116.5% per year.
What has INTC funding been on average?
On Lighter: -6.4% APR over 24 hours, 7.8% over 7 days and 11.3% over 30 days. Longs paid in 94% of the hours over the last 30 days.
What does high or negative INTC funding mean?
High funding means the market is crowded with longs: holding a long is expensive and a fall can trigger a long squeeze. Negative funding means crowded shorts. Check who exactly is positioned and where their liquidations are on the whale positions page and the liquidation map.